Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey
Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire (1759 – 1824) c1786 per la pintora sueca Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807); as well as a painter, a founding member of the Royal Academy and known for popularizing the crayon method of engraving.
This is a beautiful and tranquil retrat of Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey sitting in a forest on some rocks wearing a white dress with large ruffles along the collar and at the edges of the sleeves, a large sun hat that has two large feathers and a black bow tied around it with another set of feathers sticking out the back, a pair of gold chain earrings, gold string chocker necklace, as well as a picture necklace that hangs to her mid section that compliments a gold and black sash.
En el fons, directly behind her are two large trees, with bushes that dominate the landscape which over looks a coastal area that is populated with a small mountain range and village by the water.
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Informació a continuació derivada de Wikipedia.org
Bartolozzi was born in Florence, and as was the custom of the time, it was thought that he would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a gold and silver smith.
This though would change since the young Bartolozzi showed a great deal of skill and taste in designing; as a result he was thus placed under the supervision of two Florentine artists, including Italian Painter Ignazio Hugford (1703 – 1778) and Italian Rococo Style Painter Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692 – 1768) who instructed him in painting.
After three years of art training, he went to Venice to study engraving; and spent six years working for German Engraver and Draughtsman Joseph Wagner (1706 – 1780), an engraver and printseller, before setting up his own workshop.
The first engraving Bartolozzi produced in Venice were plates in the style of Italian Baroque Period Painter Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730) and Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (1702 – 1788) a Late Baroque or Rococo Period Landscape Painter.
Després a dins 1762 Bartolozzi moved to Rome for a short period of time, where he completed a set of engravings representing frescoes at Grottaferrata by Italian Baroque Painter Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri 1581 – 1641) depicting the life of St Nilus.
That set of engravings and his etchings of old master’s works, began to draw public attention throughout Europe; i dins 1763 he met Richard Dalton (1715 – 1791), draughtsman, engraver and the English Royal Librarian who was traveling in Italy looking for acquisitions for King George III art collection.
Dalton li va oferir una cita com a gravador del rei; which Bartolozzi accepted and left for London in 1764; where he lived for 42 anys.
During his time in London he produced a large number of engravings, which included Clytie after Italian Painter Annibale Carracci (1560 – 1609), i de la Verge amb el Nen, after Italian Baroque Painter Carlo Dolci (1616/7 – 1686).
A large proportion of them are from the works of Italian Painter Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 – 1785) and British Painter Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807). Bartolozzi també va aportar diversos plats a la Shakespeare Gallery de Boydell.
